Nina Bawden

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.